VideoLAN Project A multimedia streaming solution talk by Jean-Paul Saman jean-paul saman #at# planet nl Who am I? ● Member of the videolan core team of developers for vlc (since 2001) and vls (since 2002) ● VLC media player – Port maintainer for iPaq (Familiar Linux distribution) – GTK+ and GPE interface for iPaq – DVB-S/C/T access plugin – Maintaining Opie video output ● VLS – Dynamic telnet configuration – VLS daemon code / TrickPlay architecture code History (1 /2) ● Started in 1996 as second year project on Ecole Central Paris – 10 new students per year ● Goal of project: – Streaming high-quality video over a WAN/LAN ● 1998 First MPEG2 streaming ● 1999 First DVD streaming tests on ECP campus – 30 testers History (2/2) ● 2001 – Feb: GPL license – Oct: Satellite card ± MPEG2 board – Nov: big test with 200 testers for 3 streaming channels ● 2002 – Jan: Multicast support added – May: Final test with 600 testers and 15 channels ● 2003 – Video on demand solution (http, mms, ftp, rtsp, sap, slp) – 1000 testers Project Organisation ● External: – Ecole Centrale Paris, Partners, External contributors ● Internal: – Project manager, Legal team, Network team, VLC team, VLS team, Communications team. ● Team Meetings every week – Whole team and subparts (vlc, vls, network, communications, legal) ● Legal entity with its own bank account and: – Owns network and network hardware Development cycle Development Bug Squash Tests Feedback Announce Release ECP Campus network ● The network consists of 1000 computers – 100 Mbits Full Layer 3 switches and routers – 1 Giga Bits Fiber backbone – Entirely managed by students ● 120 channels permanently multicasted – Satellite and DVD quality streams – 300 Mbit/s of multicast streams on the backbone – Real-time encoded video stream from television camera ● 1000 users of streaming video Awards won ● Open Source Merit Award (17 Jan 2004) from Open Source Initiative ● VLC awarded by MacGeneration (20 Sept 2003) During Apple Expo Paris 2003, VLC won the trophy for developers support ! ● VLC runner up for Apple Design Award (25 June 2003) VLC 0.5.3 is runner up for Apple Design Award 2003. ● VLC nominated at the Free Software Trophies! (23 May 2003). ● Linux Challenge: VideoLAN wins (Jan 2002) Videolan is one of the 25 winners of the IBM Linux Challenge for Open Source projects developed by University students. Streaming solution Sub projects ● VLC Media Player ● VLS ● Libdvbpsi (PSI parser) ● Libdvdcss (decryption of DVD) ● Libdvdplay (DVD menus) ● Libdts/DTSdec (DTS Coherent Acoustics is a high quality multi-channel (5.1) digital audio format) – Used in DVD©s and DTS audio CD©s – First Open Source implementation of this codec ● Use of external Open Source projects (ffmpeg, flac, faac, faad, a52, dvdnav, Vorbis, etc.) Demo VLC media player (decoder) ● Highly modularized – Input (file, PVR, DVD, VCD, DVB-S/C/T, etc.), decoder, interface (Gtk, PDA, skins, etc.), video-, audio output, subtitles, filters, service information (SAP, SLP), misc (remote control, DVD menus, infrared, CPU accelleration, Mozilla plugins, etc.), stream output ● Multiple platforms and multiple OS – Linux (Debian, RH, Fedora, Mandrake, Gentoo), Windows 95/98/2000/XP, Max OS X, BeOS, *BSD, Solaris, iPaq (Familiar Linux), Zaurus, Yopy, QNX ● Codec support for: – MPEG-1/2/3/4, AC3, DTS, DivX, OggVorbis (Theora, Tremor) and many more VLC media player (encoder) ● Stream server – Stream output (file, unicast, multicast: IGMPv2/IGMPv3, network: IPv4 / IPv6 / UDP / RTP / HTTP / FTP / MMSH) – Streaming formats (MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, Ogg, ASF, MP4, RAW, to file only: AVI, MP4) – Miscellaneous: DVD subtitles, SAP announcements ● Transcoding – Video: MPEG-1/2/4, DivX 1/2/3, WMV1/2, H/I 263, MJPEG, Theora – Audio: MPEG Layer 2/3, AC3, MPEG-4, Vorbis, Flac, Speex VideoLAN Server (VLS) ● Stream: – MPEG 1, MPEG 2 and MPEG 4 TS/PS files – DVD and subtitles (unencrypted, encrypted, region coded) – Digital satellite/cable/terresterial channels (DVB- S/C/T) and ASI cards – Live video streaming through v4l2-interface (webcams, etc.) VideoLAN Server (VLS) ● Unicast and multicast network streaming over: – UDP and RTP (TS only) – IPv4 and IPv6 ● Transcoding: – Live video streaming through v4l2-interface (webcams, etc.) ● SAP announcements Streaming Demo Partners ● Ecole Centrale (supports VideoLAN as a key development project.) ● IBM (donated 2 netfinity servers) ● Britisch Telecom Exact Technologies (contributed IPv6 under GPL) ● AT&T (contributed Multicast support for VLC under GPL) ● SNCF (Hired Samuel Hocevar for working full-time on enhancing VideoLAN client.) ● Others: Extreme Networks, SILICOMP, VTHR, LD.M, Bouygues Future ● Usability enhancements ● Distributed and adaptive streaming system – QoS, Wireless LAN ● Embedded systems (PDA, UMTS, DVR©s, ) – Digital Video Recorders ● Video telephony and conferencing Questions ? ● Internet site: http://www.videolan.org ● Developers site: http://developers.videolan.org ● Features: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html .